Old Red
-
Posts
17,641 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
7
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Old Red
-
Of course the owners need the players to conduct their baseball business, but they have other business to fall back on, where the players don’t.
-
There is nothing wrong with players trying to get as much money as they can just like anyone else, and I never said there was, but if they don’t like what they get then you either play, or don’t. I think the players need the owners more than the other way around. The owners already have businesses.
-
Thanks for your permission.
-
Yes it’s their livelihood, but they work for someone. It’s not the other way around.
-
Couldn’t of said this any better myself. Well written.
-
It’s not their right to do that?
-
I’m all for that too. Like I have stated before I have no sympathy for either side. The owners do already invest though in different enterprises.
-
There is something wrong with that?
-
Not in the big scheme of things, and I’ll say it again if they don’t like what they are paid just like with any job let them find a new one.
-
Like I’ve said many times that if the players don’t like what they are getting paid let them find another job out in the real word.
-
I haven’t been to over priced Fenway in 20+ years.
-
Do you pay as much to get into a Tom Cruise movie as you do to get into a Red Sox game??
-
I have no sympathy for either side. Players turning down $300M contracts, and owners offering them. Both sides are greedy.
-
Take it away from the top players then.
-
You can go with that, and I’ll go with Bloom didn’t have much of an allowance to spend from JH.
-
And like I said I’m not the only one on here who complained about the trade.
-
There is Nothing wrong about getting excited over prospects, and there is Nothing wrong about not getting excited over prospects.
-
You guys are worked up about an opinion that doesn’t match yours, and for the record there was more than me who was against the JBJ trade, so I guess they must have been all worked up too.
-
Nutty? Ah the name calling will start. When I was talking about prospects I was talking mostly about ones who came back in trades, and not ones drafted by the Sox. I understand about sending prospects back in trades aspect.
-
So this is what you going with? The team went penny pinching on the Starting Rotation, and they are going to take on JBJ’s contract for 2 prospects that might never make it to the big leagues. I didn’t like the trade as it was, and would hated even more for that reason.
-
No I don’t, and I think it’s the other way around. Just because I said prospects mean nothing to me look how many have gotten riled up about it. You all have your opinion, and I have mine, and I also don’t remember saying any of you are wrong. Of course you all used half my sentence that prospects mean nothing, and jumped from there. I also said they mean nothing unless, or if the prospects become productive in a Red Sox uniform, and then things would change. So far NONE of the prospects in the Mookie, or JBJ trades have done that, and if they do they will mean something. Maybe I should have stirred things up even more, and said this is a head scratcher. That became a hot topic for a time before.
-
Well until any of the Mookie prospects, or JBJ prospects make a contribution to the Red Sox, or are used as a trade chip for someone I will stick to my opinion, and it won’t be changed by anyone. I think getting the prospects in the JBJ trade was more exited by some on here than getting JBJ back himself.wow a 3 for 1 trade with prospects coming back. Must be a great trade. NOT.
-
That was a great trade, but I don’t think Wong will be a Tek, and there is no Lowe in the bunch.
-
I already knew all of this, and I didn’t say prospects was a dirty word, but only that they don’t mean anything to me unless they get to Fenway Park in a Red Sox uniform, and produce, and that is my main point, which is different from everyone else. I remember very well you didn’t like the JBJ trade, and caused a big stir when you scratched your head.
-
100% agree, and 9 hours may be under estimated.